Harvey Norman Jillaroos Coach Brad Donald has named a squad of 24 ahead of the 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup, commencing on Thursday 16 November in Sydney. The squad includes 16 World Cup debutants, as well as five players who have captained Australia this year in Sam Bremner, Karina Brown, Steph Hancock, Renae Kunst and Ruan Sims. Donald said that every Jillaroos team member this year - either playing in matches or as part of training camps - had contributed to elevating the team to its highest professional point and was confident in the abilities of the squad selected for the World Cup. 'Every member of the Jillaroos has had the...

The outer bands of Hurricane Nate lashed parts of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi with heay rain Saturday afternoon as Gulf Coast residents prepared for an evening landfall and those in low-lying areas fled for higher ground. ......

Istanbul (CNN)Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday announced a new operation in the northern Syrian province of Idlib to drive out an al Qaeda splinter group before the establishment of a de-escalation zone there. "Today in Idlib there is a serious operation underway, and it will continue," Erdogan said during an address to his party in Afyonkarahisar. Free Syrian Army (FSA) units backed by Turkish forces will carry out the operation, Erdogan said. Turkish soldiers have not yet crossed the border, he added. The Free Syrian Army is a rebel group comprising Syrian military defectors and rebel groups opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime. The FSA units are expected...

LONDON — A car crash that injured 11 people outside a major London tourist attraction Saturday sparked fears of a terrorist attack but turned out to be simply a traffic accident, London police said. The accident at 2:20 p.m. outside the popular Natural History Museum in the heart of central London brought a gigantic police response, including helicopters and hazardous area response teams, because of terrorist concerns. Police said 11 people were injured when a...

ORLANDO, Fla. A 35-year-old Orlando man who uses a wheelchair was arrested and charged with numerous counts after a customer at a Chick-fil-A allegedly caught him raping a baby girl in the restaurant’s bathroom, police said. The witness told police that he went to the restroom and while he was at the urinal, saw something questionable in a reflection on the wall tile,...

EVANSTON, Ill. Trace McSorley threw for 245 yards and a touchdown, Saquon Barkley ran for two scores in the second half, and No. 4 Penn State beat Northwestern 31-7 on Saturday. McSorley completed 15 straight passes to break Kerry Collins' program record and was 25 of 34 overall. He threw a 10-yard touchdown to backup quarterback Tommy Stevens in the second quarter and added a 5-yard TD run in the fourth. "I felt good," McSorley said. "Woke up today feeling great. Came out in warmups, was feeling really well. Our receivers were doing a great job ......

Panaji: Guinea were saved a major embarrassment and disciplinary sanctions by a Goan sports goods shop owner after he managed to get their goalkeepers jerseys stitched in time. Moses Gonsalves, who owns a sports goods shop in Ribandar and provides jerseys to all top football clubs in Goa, was alerted by the local organising committee (LOC) for the Fifa U-17 World Cup that Guinea’s jerseys were not as per Fifa specifications. With Guinea’s opener against Iran set to kick off less than 24 hours later, he hardly had any...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — At the main entrance of last weekend's country music festival, Darla Christensen was checking concertgoers' bags and boots for alcohol and contraband and was inspecting wristbands. In the crowd, her co-workers were dealing with drunken fights, fence-jumpers and patrons who wanted to go backstage. Then the gunfire broke out. Christensen grabbed other guards and patrons and pushed them toward a side gate. She and co-workers at the private security firm Contemporary Services Corporation lifted people over barriers and hid them behind pillars and under the stage. One of its guards was among the 58 people who died. The 200 yellow-clad security guards who staffed the Route 91...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorney Lisa Bloom said Saturday she is no longer representing movie mogul Harvey Weinstein as he confronts sexual harassment allegations dating back years, while a TV news anchor lodged another claim of misconduct against the movie mogul and a third board member resigned from Weinstein's company. The developments, along with the departure of yet another lawyer for Weinstein, are the latest fallout from sexual harassment allegations against the Oscar-winning producer that The New York Times detailed in an expose Thursday. "My understanding is that Mr. Weinstein and his board are moving toward an agreement," Bloom said in announcing her resignation on Twitter. Bloom didn't...

Polish Catholics held rosaries and prayed together Saturday along the country's 3,500-kilometer (2,000-mile) border, appealing to the Virgin Mary and God for salvation for Poland and the world in a national event that some felt had anti-Muslim overtones. ......

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